Harvesting feminist knowledge for public policy : rebuilding progress

Co-published with SAGE Publications IndiaThis volume consists of 14 essays written in the context of the “triple crises” of food, fuel, and finance; the deep-seated problems of growing inequality; unpaid care work; and environmentally unsustainable patterns of economic growth. The authors argue that the very approach being taken to understand and measure progress, and to plan for and evaluate development, needs rethinking in ways that draw on the knowledge of women. It is the forms of production, paradigms, and institutions themselves that need transforming, both through changes in ideas that generate economic policies, and through social mobilization